Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood, growing up on a West Country farm - three families, a couple of lodgers, goats and dogs. The adults are far too busy to keep an eye on Amy and Lan, and Amy and Lan would never tell them what happened with the axe that time, any more than their parents would tell them about their adult things that threaten to bring the whole fragile idyll tumbling down. From the bestselling author of "The Snakes".